| In the countryside, her duties include caring for children, home, and garden, as well as transplanting, harvesting, and winnowing the rice. |
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| The packing continues, as I once again go through the process of winnowing out the dross that I have collected over the past dozen or so years. |
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| Show producers are now winnowing the group to 12 hopefuls for America's first reality-TV primary. |
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| In this steep economic downturn, markets are flushing out overcapacity, winnowing the weak from the strong. |
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| The list was developed in a series of winnowing steps and overseen by economists, with the final panel including three Nobel laureates. |
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| His distaste for hypotheses is the natural reaction of a man in possession of a far superior instrument for winnowing truth from error. |
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| This involved process includes roasting the beans, winnowing the shells, and grinding the nibs to form chocolate liquor. |
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| For example, look at something like a winnowing machine which separates the corn from the chaff. |
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| But on February 21st two diggers began scooping up and gently winnowing the ground in search of human remains. |
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| But winnowing the few chemicals that have antibiotic effects from the myriad that might do, but don't, is tedious. |
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| Cocoa dust is the fraction of the cocoa bean produced as a product during winnowing and degerming. |
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| From the CASEVIEW sampling frame, drawing a regionally proportionate random sample of 2,000 of the files remaining after the winnowing effort. |
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| However, before gathering the wheat in the barn, one must do the winnowing. |
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| The winnowing down of these documents may be facilitated by a discussion between plaintiff's and defendant's counsel. |
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| With the harvest already in, this time of year is devoted mainly to the threshing and winnowing of grain crops. |
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| Stretchers are made mainly by men, who sometimes also weave winnowing baskets, and there are very few of these specialists within the DTC area. |
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| One golden crop has felt the winnowing van, another now is ready. |
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| Each one represents the endpoint of a long process of winnowing, pruning and perfecting, driven entirely by the market. |
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| We have promised to go round and help Horace with his furniture winnowing before B's mum comes back from holiday and guilt-trips him in to keeping everything. |
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| One criterion for winnowing the field has already been mentioned: tractability. |
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| Note concentration of rounded boulders on surface resulting from winnowing of fines by wave action. |
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| After this initial review, it was determined that for the purposes of this study, the best use of CASEVIEW may be as a winnowing tool. |
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| But the straw poll's winnowing effect also has advantages – especially for those on the social conservative wing of the party. |
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| It is impossible to remember everything, so a process of winnowing must take place somehow. |
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| These include the preparation of new fields, preparing existing fields, ploughing, planting, harvesting, threshing, winnowing, and storing the grain. |
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| Well, it performs more of a winnowing function in GOP contests, where the evangelical vote can be as high as 40 percent. |
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| The rotary winnowing fan greatly increased the efficiency of separating grain from husks and stalks. |
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| By the end of the winnowing process, there were about 1,400 files on individuals in the residue-fewer than half the number active in the counter-subversion program. |
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| Therefore, empty the berries into the winnowing machine from the lowest height possible and place the box as close as possible to the end of the chute where the winnowed fruit are collected. |
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| The way science works is by a back-and-forth and a winnowing of the evidence until eventually the weight of evidence builds up strongly enough on one side that the hypothesis of interest is accepted. |
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| It should not be winnowing candidates at this stage in the game. |
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| Despite their widespread use, skilled basket-makers are relatively few in number, particularly for specialized baskets made by men, such as winnowing trays and stretchers. |
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| Winnowing down countless artifacts to compile A History of New York in 101 Objects was challenging enough. |
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